The Robert D. Williamson Award

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It is with great pleasure that VALA announces that the 2008 Robert D. Williamson Award goes to Elizabeth Drynan and Pamela Johnstone, from Enterprise Information Management Pty Ltd, for their outstanding contribution to librarianship as editors of Online Currents. Online Currents has been a dedicated independent published source of information about the online library industry in Australia since the 1980s. Online Currents has reported on every new development in our industry, every database, new online services, CD-ROMS, and in more recent years, search engines and websites. In providing clear, unbiased, and quality information to the library profession over many years, Elizabeth Drynan and Pamela Johnstone are very worthy recipients of the 2008 Robert D. Williamson Award.

NATURE OF THE AWARD

The Committee of VALA - Libraries, Technology & the Future Inc. makes an award biennially to an individual or organisation who or which is, in the opinion of the judging panel, currently making an outstanding contribution to the development of information technology usage in Australian libraries and is positively and significantly influencing development in information technology usage within libraries.

The Award consists of a framed certificate and a gift (or gifts) to the value of $1,000 (one thousand dollars). The Robert D. Williamson Award is announced and presented at the VALA Conference Dinner.

It is essential that nominees are NOT aware that they are being nominated for an award. Disclosure of a nomination may prejudice that nomination. Details of a nomination are only made public when a nomination is successful, and then only after presentation of the Award.